Lip Service

Off the top. San Diego style.
Surfer: JP
Photo: Slavin

High School Buddy

"I shaped this board for a old high school buddy of mine named Gary Austin. It's a 9'-2" RPTNR. Tom Curtis' pinwork rocks this design! The board is about 3" thick and 22.5" wide. Is it San Diego State colors or La Jolla High?! This one turned out bitchin." dm

Sequential

Very nice sequence shot by our pal John Slavin.
Location: City of San Diego. Enjoy.

March 22 2010

A rarely surfed and temperamental spot in San Diego showed it's colors. JP makin it happen on his Murphy Southwind model.

Lifestyle of JP

Yes, all those sticks are Murphy's: and please note that the one behind him has been put back together twice by our great friend and ally, Joe Roper. JP in his crib painting in his inimitable style preparing to go on another undercover mission at the reefs. Thanks Aaron, John Slavin, Lance Smith et. al. ; not necessarily in that order. You guys are the best support team on this coast or any other. Dennis out for now.
p.s. I couldn't do any of this without Chris Miller or Ed Lewis of The Leucadia Project.com. Check out the site! And that's an order y'all. Later. dm



Painting al fresco at the Cove - ooo la la

Finished art work put to the test.

Early Evening Commute

JP
San Diego

What Are Friends For?!

If anyone wants to borrow your board, make sure that you are there with them at all times. This little blurb is the lead-in to a funny read..

Awhile back, a great customer/friend called to request my services to help him and a buddy out of a tight jam. When Mick told me that they borrowed a board and "kind-of destroyed it" I said "Sure we can handle that". He was lookin for a replication of a competitors piece of equipment. Normally I would offer to do the job and upgrade the board, but Mick and Co. were a bit nervous regarding the potential outcome. What they didn't say was that the board was virtually BRAND-NEW! That is if you consider a new board to have more dings and rips than an old log lost at high tide Dolphin Tanks with a ten foot Norther raging six foot white water on the boulders. The foam color was perfect though. I don't know how they managed to tear up this gorgeous stick, but indeed they pulled it off. The new replacement is very close to the original sans the nice blue tint [which is hard to color-match on repair] I was told that the owner doesn't surf much and probably wouldn't care too much about the color change. Right then it hit me; these guys might try to borrow the new one for a test-ride and if for any dings, they could probably fix it and the poor owner would never know! Wow, I'd have thought that they would have learned their lesson, but surfers love the challenge. My message on the stringer is to the new owner simply put "RIDE ME".... that doesn't mean everybody! Dennis out for now.